# Delete Indexes based on Month Name

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-based-on-month-name/213199>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-based-on-month-name/213199 "2019-12-27T14:42:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Narang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gaurav_narang/32/48919_2.png) [@Gaurav\_Narang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Narang)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-based-on-month-name/213199/1 "2019-12-27T14:42:55Z")

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I have month and year based indexes in the following format inventory\_log\_november\_2019  
Index name format -\>prefix + month + year

How to use curator to delete indices which are older than 'X' months?  
If we are using source as name in the curator yml file then what will be the timestring property?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-based-on-month-name/213199/2 "2020-01-24T14:43:04Z")

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